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Before they’re ripe, it’s easier to see why they’re called eggplants.
Before they’re ripe, it’s easier to see why the ...
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Bethlem Royal Hospital: why did the infamous Bedlam asylum have such a fearsome reputation?
Bethlem Royal Hospital: why did the infamous Be ...
history
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TIL China kept quiet about poisoned baby formula because they didn’t want to ruin the 2008 ...
TIL China kept quiet about poisoned baby formul ...
China corruption scandal
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TIL that Ancient Babylonians did math in base 60 instead of base 10. That’s why we have 60 ...
TIL that Ancient Babylonians did math in base 6 ...
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TIL of “hunger stones”: the Central European practice of marking river levels with c ...
TIL of “hunger stones”: the Central ...
history
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Police training/demonstration of how to escape bumper-to-bumper traffic using the handbrake
Police training/demonstration of how to escape ...
Brilliant car
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How different washing machine modes work.
How different washing machine modes work.
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How to extend the life of your lithium-ion batteries
How to extend the life of your lithium-ion batt ...
battery
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TIL: the umbilical cord has one vein that feeds babies with the nutrients they need from their m ...
TIL: the umbilical cord has one vein that feeds ...
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Your Private Messages Might Travel Under This Beach
Your Private Messages Might Travel Under This Beach
cornwall
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Bluetooth is named after a tenth-century Viking king. An employee at Intel thought of the name, ...
Bluetooth is named after a tenth-century Viking ...
Bluetooth
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The Language Sounds That Could Exist, But Don’t
The Language Sounds That Could Exist, But Don&# ...
Language
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TIL ‘Organic’ food in the EU does not mean ‘no pesticides.’ It means up ...
TIL ‘Organic’ food in the EU does n ...
EU law organic
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10 Outrageous Markups You’d Never Guess You Were Paying
10 Outrageous Markups You’d Never Guess You Wer ...
con rip off scam
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Mack TIL Movie theatre popcorn is sold at a 1275% markup
How to Understand the Image of a Black Hole
How to Understand the Image of a Black Hole
astronomy
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How to tie a bow
How to tie a bow
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TIL The star wars theme was written purposely on the same key as the 20th Century Fox fanfare (t ...
TIL The star wars theme was written purposely o ...
Star Wars
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TIL that the term scapegoat comes from an old Jewish ritual where they would put all the sins of ...
TIL that the term scapegoat comes from an old J ...
religion
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TIL The bezel on a dive watch only turns counterclockwise so that if the bezel is bumped acciden ...
TIL The bezel on a dive watch only turns counte ...
watch
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